Word: dialogic
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...background instead of the beau monde and that handsome Barbara Stanwyck is in it. Spectators know as soon as they see Owsley that Ricardo Cortez is going to get Miss Stanwyck in the end. But such spectators will not go home: Barbara Stanwyck will hold them. She makes the dialog - so jerky and stilted on the lips of the rest of the cast - sound as though it were superbly written. In the picture she has the same troubles as the girl in Rodgers & Hart's famed song, from which the title is taken...
...best directed and most gruesome of War pictures. High credit should go to Director G. W. Pabst who with small resources made a picture that in every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare is pantomimic enough to be self-explanatory; they will find in it the nervous impact of unbearable physical horror. Comrades of 1918 is an argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet on the Western Front, which...
Married. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), much-reported golf-partner of Mayor James John Walker; and Edward Duryea Dowling, 26, dialog director for Paramount-Publix Studio, Astoria, N. Y.; secretly, in Manhattan...
Stolen Heaven (Paramount). Nancy Carroll wears pretty clothes and struggles with stupid dialog, with weak direction by George Abbott, and with a story by Dana Burnet that might have been impressive, if thoroughly and patiently dealt with, but that turns out badly. A young man (Phillips Holmes) who has held up a radio factory meets a discouraged girl in a city street late at night. She hides him in her room and, liking each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit...
Girls Demand Excitement (Fox). This is a juvenile Lysistrata played against a collegiate backdrop in dialog disinfected for young ears. The original framework of Aristophanes' comedy is kept to the extent that the girl students will not "pet" unless the male students stop depriving them of their communal rights. The big scene comes in the basketball game when the girls use flirtatious methods of managing a victory. Girls Demand Excitement is made bearable at times by the good looks of a youthful cast. Best part: Virginia Cherrill (heroine of City Lights) as the girl who eliminates the leading male woman...